As to Wednesdays winners -- well, were there any? Ford, maybe? Scotty McCreery? Isn't every day a victory for those guys?

Since we're down to the Final Three, the remaining AI contestants each sang three songs: One personal selection, one selected by resident hitmaker Jimmy Iovine, and one selected by the judges. None of these people apparently grok what flies and what doesn't on American Idol, and as a result Wednesday was mostly a disaster.

hear to Robert Plant's primal yawp on American TV, so that's something. (Worth noting: She fell on her ass in mid-song and recovered beautifully. Also worth noting: Haley's dad accompanied her on guitar. Sweet!)

"Rhiannon" could have been great, but wasn't -- the song's climactic lines, in which Stevie Nicks sings "Take me like the wind...",

were mysteriously excised, even though the build-up to those lines was